A new RAND Corporation study finds that the one-year delay of the employer mandate in President Obama’s health care reform law “will not have a substantial effect on insurance coverage.”
From the report: “300,000 fewer people, or 0.2 percent, will have access to insurance from their employer, and nearly all of these will get insurance from another source… However, a one-year delay in implementation of the mandate will result in a 6-percent reduction (or $11 billion) in federal inflows from employer penalties. A full repeal of the employer mandate would cause revenue to fall by $149 billion over the next ten years, providing substantially less money to pay for other components of the law.”
The Hill: “Those results are significantly less than the findings of a Congressional Budget Office report, which found that as many as 1 million fewer people will have employer-based healthcare.”
Via The Wonk Wire.
